Religion: Jogger's Progress

When John Cardinal Heenan, leader of 4.1 million Roman Catholics in
England and Wales, died last November, church watchers and the
oddsmakers at Ladbroke's began guessing which of the realm's 18
bishops would replace him. Last week Pope Paul VI provided the answer:
none of them. He bypassed the entire hierarchy and appointed instead
tall, white-haired Dom George Basil Hume, 52, abbot of the Benedictine
monastery at Ampleforth in Yorkshire. Hume is the first monk to become
Archbishop of Westminster since England in 1850 permitted the
restoration of the Catholic hierarchy.